US Patent Issued to Google on June 16 for "Encrypted information retrieval" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,140, issued on June 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Encrypted information retrieval" was invented by Eli Simon Fox-Epstein (Los Angeles) and Kevin Wei Li Yeo (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer readable medium facilitating encrypted information retrieval. Methods can include receiving a batch of queries that includes queries to special buckets in each database shard. Query results responsive to the batch of queries are transmitted to the client device. The query results includes server-encrypted secret shares obtained from the special buckets. Client-encrypted versions of t...